This is not always easy. As it turns out, feels do NOT want to be told what to do!
Feels, more often than not, love to justify why they have ALWAYS felt the way they have felt. Feels rarely wish to take other things into account.
Worse, feels tend to feel THEIR feels are the most important. In addition, feels quite often feel the need to demand the fielty of family and friends. Without feeling the need to return the favor. Feels feeling are paramount.
I am making sure my feels don’t run me or speak for my life. Yes, I take my feels into account. They ARE important. Still, they can not be the only factor, the determining factor when interacting with others.
We must take each other’s thoughts, feelings, feedback into account and come out with an acceptable dish. We may not always like the dish but we ought have enjoyed the preparation, the camaraderie, the discourse had whilst coming up with the meal(conversation).
I wish my mom were around for a good mini argument. Kobe or Lebron? Mahomes or Allen? French Vanilla or Hazelnut.
I am in a yakking mood lately. Just looking to learn from as many cultures as I can get my hand on. I just so happened to come across a micro baker who is sharing about starting a micro bakery from home. Who knew?! I enjoy cooking…hhmmm.
I lay down with discouragement. We talked for a little while.
I asked it why it was so damned discouraged?
Said it didn’t know. Said it “just wuz”.
After a while, I told discouragement it had to go. I had thangs to do. Discouragement understood. It went in search of folk easily swayed. I was not.
I just stopped by to encourage folk a bit. Starting with me.
Be encouraged. We CAN. We WILL. Eventually. I think.😳🤗😂🥰
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Things really WILL be alright. I have just been focusing on the tossing waves. 🌊 Time to focus on getting to the other side. Some kind of way. Be encouraged. Don’t give up. Not just yet.
These storms, the last four days, have been relentless.
They have, in fact, been historic. Awful flooding. Dodging 🌪 tornadoes. 14 or so, at last count.
Since Wednesday morning, I have done my all to keep folk encouraged whilst trying to hang onto my sanity.
I keep telling myself this is NOT last year’s tornado. Doesn’t help much with 🚨 sirens going off every which way and vertigo losing its mind.😳🤯
I just stopped ’round to encourage somebody. It’s easy to want to throw in the towel when all hell is breaking out everywhere.
Hang on. Hang in there. The storms will and do pass. Hold tight, to your dreams, until they do.
I have not used these storms as permission to comfort eat, rage at storms doing what storms do, or berate myself for being tired of having to be positive whilst going through fifty million storms already!!!!
Beloveds, it’s perfectly okay to be tired of being about being about it when things are hard for a good length of time.
Be tired. Be human. Just don’t quit. We have too many thangs to do. Summer will be here soon. Keep moving FORWARD. Keep looking UP.
Hold fast to your peace. Keep standing ten toes down on FAITH. Be sure to laugh. Even if you can find nothing to laugh at save how dumb you look hollering at the storm…lol.
We got this. God has us all. Be encouraged. If you are feeling really low, it really will help to look out for someone else. It will also help take your mind off your own what the hell is this.
asking for A Friend, Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Be encouraged. Ah, God. Hurry. Just a smidge. Asking for many friends.
I needed to move the television. An inch or so to the left. It was driving me cra cra!
I was too lazy. So, I spent forever arguing in my mind. Dummy me.
Finally, I couldn’t take it ONE MORE SECOND! MOVE THE STUPID TELEVISION ALREADY, CASSANDRA!!
Whew! Perfection. Shoulda done that weeks ago. I could have spared myself weeks of annoyance and strained viewing. Smh.
We can get like that right, beloveds?
God/Life/The Universe will prompt us to course correct and we use all manner of excuses not to.
Even small corrections. We like our things the way we like our things. Even things which we KNOW could stand a bit of adjustment here and there.
I am learning to make the adjustments as quickly as I can. It’s not always easy. It has NOT been fun.
I have cried. I have raged. I have pouted. I am adjusting, though.
I stopped ’round to encourage you to keep on making those adjustments. Pout as you need to. But, keep moving those things a bit to the left or right…lol.
adjusting darnit!,
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
Note: Keep doing what it takes to grow/go. You got this. I love you.
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